Creating the EnemyCharacter C++ class

In our Dodgeball game, the EnemyCharacter class will constantly be looking at the player character, if they're within view. This is the same class that will later throw dodgeballs at the player; however, we'll leave that to the next chapter. In this chapter, we will be focusing on the logic that allows our enemy character to look at the player.

So, let's get started:

1. Right-click the Content Browser inside the editor and select New C++ Class.
2. Choose the Character class as the parent class.
3. Name the new class EnemyCharacter.

After you've created the class and opened its files in Visual Studio, let's add the LookAtActor function declaration in its header file. This function should be public, not return anything and only receive the AActor* TargetActor parameter, which will be the actor it should be facing. Have a look at the following code snippet, which shows this function:

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